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BRAPA is .... MARCHINGTON TOGETHER (WE'RE GONNA SEE YOU .... BOOZE!)
It was one of those typical Saturdays. You know the kind of Saturday. Where your Dad opens his fake football fixture list, which tells you to go pub ticking in Wigan and the surrounding area. But...
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BRAPA in ..... BEAUT-TOXETER / CONGRESSIONAL CONFESSIONAL (More Staffs...
A week ago, and we weren't even in our third pub yet but it had already felt like a long day. After an ill-advised pint in Stoke's bod, and rural fun in Draycott-in-the-Clay and particularly...
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BRAPA in ..... NO HOYLANDSWAINE, NO GAIN : FINISHING SOUTH YORKSHIRE
I couldn't avoid it any longer. Having ticked off Brinsworth the week before, I had one remaining 'tick' to do in that rewarding county of South Yorkshire. And with the countdown towards GBG 2022...
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BRAPA in .... THE BRITISH RHYL ALE PUB ADVENTURE
Sorry for the lateness of the hour, I've been imbibing in the Swan and Slip in York, two lovely pubs, and lost track of time. If you love this blog title, please give credit to a Mr Martin Alsop....
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BRAPA in ..... MOLDY OLD BRO' (NORTH EAST WALES PART 2/2)
 Rhyl and Prestatyn complete, three pubs down, we'd hit the halfway point in the day.Decision time.To Mold or not to Mold?  The advantage of Molding is that the town has three GBG ticks, meaning we...
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BRAPA ..... MONTH END REVIEW : OCTOBER 2021
 You break me off from my transformation into something ghastly, before the witching hour, just in time to tell you how October BRAPA went. Tick or Treat! (I was going to say Tick or Teat, but it...
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BRAPA in ..... TICK A LITTLE PIECE OF MY HERTS NOW, BRAPA (2021 HALLOWE'EN...
Under a cloud of uncertainty, I arrived in sunny Hitchin on the morning of Saturday 30th October.The first few copies of the shiny new blue 2022 Good Beer Guide had been observed across southern...
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BRAPA in ..... CROSS-TICKING THE 2022 GOOD BEER GUIDE : WHAT'S THE VERDICT?
Laying horizontally across my psychiatrist's sofa the other day, staring up at the giant map of County Devon on the ceiling, she asks "... so Si, what makes you TICK?"Â "The Good Beer Guide and a green...
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BRAPA in ..... WINCHESTER CATHEDR-ALE (Hants in my Pants Pt 1/6)
During my seven and a half years of pubs ticking, I cannot recall anyone recommending Winchester to me as a leading UK pub town. But after visiting the six pubs that appear in the 2022 Good Beer...
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BRAPA is ...... BROUGHT-ON AS A SUB, ADDING TO MY TALLY (HO) (Hants in my...
 Staring down into the village well in Broughton on the morning of Wednesday 3rd November, I was getting strange flashbacks from the night before where I nearly fell into that vat of Pressed Warthog...
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BRAPA in ..... VERNHAM DEAN, YOUNG & SWEET ONLY 17 (PUB TICKS SO FAR) : Hants...
Remove a 'B' from ABBA, then add an 'R' and a 'P' and what do you get? BRAPA! It can't be a coincidence.  I tell you what else isn't a coincidence. Andover bus station being the place on earth that...
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BRAPA in ..... WONST UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (& MID, NORTH & EAST OF HANTS) -...
Remember, remember, the fifth of November. And I will. For it was today, a sunny mild Friday morning, that I met our old #PubMan pal, Mick Citra, at Hook station, ready for six of the best.The pub...
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BRAPA and ..... THE FLOWER POT MEN OF CHERITON (AND OTHER TALES) : HANTS PT 5/6
Saturday 6th November. My penultimate day of what was becoming one of the more epic BRAPA holidays of recent times. Mid Hants, I salute you!  As I force down more Travelodge coffee, cornflakes, a...
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BRAPA in .... OH WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN (TO MAINLY MICROPUBS) : Hants...
 Southampton was my location for my final day of pub ticking on this epic six day Hampshire crawl.Six pubs I'd like, and the town had twelve GBG ticks I needed. Imagine if I drank halves, I could get...
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BRAPA in ..... A TALE OF TWO GATES (From Toll to Harro)
There was a little epilogue to my tale of Hants fun, as I travelled back towards my York home on the Monday morning.For some inexplicable reason, I'd booked myself on a fixed 08:18 ticket out of...
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BRAPA in ..... SUITS YOU SUSSEX SIR! TRAVELS WITH IRVIN IN WORTHIN'
The 2022 Good Beer Guide embargo period was over, and I travelled down to Worthing in West Sussex safe in the knowledge that there'd be no more 'under the table ticking', no more pre-emptive charade,...
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BRAPA ..... MONTH END REVIEW (NOVEMBER 2021)
Good evening. It doesn't feel like a whole month since I was last sat here writing about October, and yet so much has happened in the world of BRAPA and my quest to one day, have a fully greened copy...
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BRAPA is ..... OUT OF YARM'S WAY
 North Yorkshire must be one of the hardest counties to complete in the entire GBG, and I say that as someone who lives in it.But buoyed by the fact that I'd somehow GAINED six pubs in the county...
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BRAPA in ..... ACHEY BREAKY HERTS : FROM HIGH WYCH TO BISHOP'S STORTFORD
 'I just don't think you understand'. I was quite confident about finishing Hertfordshire by the end of the wintertime, but these constant engineering works and Lincoln diversions are meaning 3.5 hour...
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BRAPA .... WOMAN IN DIS-GUISBOROUGH : ANGELIC BRAP-STARTS TICKING
 As I ventured deeper into the festive woodland forest, only a covering of snow stopped this from feeling 'exactly' like Narnia. For the first time since April's 'Outdoor Only' Pub Reopening, the air...
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